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[WildKat]

I'm due to fly back to Canada from the UK on Feb. 20th, but I seem to have caught a head cold. It literally feels like an egg is trying to escape from the inside corner of one of my eyes! I didn't even realize I had sinuses there! I'm barely coughing and my lungs don't sound all rattly or anything, but my sinuses seem to have gone completely mad on me!

In the past six months I've had three (or was it four) colds. Each one lasting about a couple of weeks each. My boyfriend has a cold and gets over it in days, but mine seems to drag on and on, almost until he gets another one and re-infects me. I know I've had more colds and flues since my sci, but I somehow don't remember having them so frequently.

I'm starting to wonder if I'm having them more, if it just seems that way because I've been keeping better track of the time that has passed, or if my body has decided to try to catch every kind of "UK cold/flu" there is before I go back to Canada!

Oh great, just when I say I'm not coughing that much it starts...

I'm not looking forward to going back to Canada really as it is because my boyfriend is still here. Of course I will get to be with my retired guide dog, and my other Siberian Husky that had to be retired before she even started working because she developed Canine Epilepsy, but I don't really have any other good reasons to want to be there. I've decided to move as soon as I get back to a more accessible province. I've lived there before and I thought that would be the best thing until all of the paperwork and things are done so I can move here and I know I will be busy with work and my three dogs. I'm taking my new guide/service dog back with me and will have to teach him to watch for traffic on the opposite side of the road, and to deal with a lot more traffic etc. It will also be his first time on a plane.

It will be easier traveling with him than it was coming here because I did the trip alone. My mom, sister and step dad stayed at my house with my dogs and I followed the people who were helping me from to and from the gates etc. at the airports. Of course the four or five hour delay at Halifax didn't help things along any but in the end I made it here safely. This time I have the added responsibility of taking care of Duke and making sure I can take him outside etc., but I've been use to doing that with Sophie (my retired guide dog) anyway. I will also be able to move around the airport etc. by myself which is a bonus.

I know Duke will be fine because I've been getting him use to tight spaces by making him lay at my feet while we are in the car, and while I'm searching for a place to rent the plan is to just fly to Halifax with him from here and find a place before my boyfriend comes to go back to Newfoundland to pick up my dogs and furniture and drive there.

I know I'm rambling a bit, and I know I could handle all of this better if I didn't feel the way I do being sick. I usually feel completely exhausted from the time I wake up anyway, but I've only been up a few hours and I feel like I should go back to bed again. I'm yawning (for lack of a better word. I didn't have a good satisfying yawn in five years!) and everything.

So back to my original thought when I started this post, do any of you find that you are getting colds and flues more after your sci and that they last longer? Also are you getting more of them each year as time goes by?

[Tetracyclone]

For me, no, I've stayed pretty healthy, but I have the advantage of being able to exercise.

Edited by Tetracyclone, 16 February 2010 - 05:49 PM.